How many times does one virus expert need to re-tweet a link to a blog entry he posted a few hours ago? How will we get timely computer security news if all the experts start playing “king of the hill” on Twitter?
(Click the headline to read this article…)Take John Hamre’s absurd panoply from the late 1990s … change the dates & names … and (ta da!) you’ve got William Lynn’s absurd panoply…
(Click the headline to read this article…)Since when did the U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense become the world’s #2 hacker? Did he only declassify a secret cyber operation so he could write for a commercial publication? And why did it take this guy nine years to hear a “wake-up call”?
(Click the headline to read this article…)“At the moment we have drivers licenses for cars, and cars are very dangerous machines. Computers are also quite dangerous in the way that they can make people vulnerable to fraud…”
(Click the headline to read this article…)We’re not saying give them special treatment. Only that it’s time to treat these former fanboys with the respect and humility they deserve, and help keep them malware-free and save them from bad design…
(Click the headline to read this article…)Tags: Macintosh, Sophos, Symantec, The Register
Media circus, Press releases, Security vendors, Victims of hysteria | Gordon Fecyk | 
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(Click the headline to read this article…)If you can remember, then it’s because you got paid to fight it. Your money precludes my empathy…
(Click the headline to read this article…)You can always count on the computer media to do two things. First they’ll go insane with misdirected security hype — and then they’ll ignore the real threat(s) after they realize just how badly they got hoodwinked by their own misdirection…
(Click the headline to read this article…)Given all the media hoopla, you’d think a horrifying BIND 9 vulnerability has combined with a leaked top secret P2P file to guarantee the death of the First Lady…
(Click the headline to read this article…)Question #1: how many Asian reporters can you spot in the photo? Question #2: how many of them knew in advance this guy was going to call for a military cyber-attack against North Korea?
(Click the headline to read this article…)Tags: Associated Press, irony, North Korea, Peter Hoekstra, Susan Walsh, Wired
Cyber-war & cyber-terror, Gov't & military, Media circus, Reporters & bloggers | Rob Rosenberger | Comments Off
